Media, Pennsylvania

Media population, 2020 to 2024

Media added 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +48. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 68th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Media is 71% of it.

Media covers 0.76 square miles of land, for 7,813 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Media is denser than the typical town.

What county Media is in

All of Media's residents live in Delaware County, which had 584,882 residents in 2024. Media holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Media

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Media by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19063. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Media is

The Census internal point of Media is at 39.920000, -75.388300. Harrisburg, the capital, is 82.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Swarthmore, PA (6,596 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 14.9 miles away.

Daylight in Media

At 39.92° N, Media gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Media

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Rose Valley, 1.7 miles away, with 1,020 people.